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Today's featured article SMS Bodrog in 1914 Sava was a river monitor, originally built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy as SMS Bodrog. She and two other monitors fired the first shots of World War I in the early hours of 29 July 1914, when they shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. During the war, she fought the Serbian and Romanian armies, and was captured in its closing stages. She was transferred to the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), and renamed Sava. During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she fought off several air attacks, but was scuttled on 11 April. Sava was later raised by the Axis puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia, and continued to serve under that name until 1944 when she was again scuttled. Following World War II, Sava was raised again, and was refurbished to serve in the Yugoslav Navy from 1952 to 1962. She became a gravel barge after that, but was restored and opened as a floating museum in November 2021. (Full article...) Recently featured: Darkness on the Edge of Town Aston Martin DB9 1896 Summer Olympics Today's featured picture {{{caption}}} Archive More featured pictures   Adam Maraana ... that Adam Maraana (pictured), an Arab-Israeli, is competing in swimming for Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics? ... that future American presidential candidate George McGovern was a student pastor at a church in Diamond Lake, Illinois? ... that Stefano Manetti was co-consecrated a bishop by the same man who ordained him a priest 30 years earlier? ... that a law was signed so that the Solomon Islands delegation could return home from the 2020 Summer Olympics? ... that Page Ackerman was post librarian at the U.S. Army development site of the atomic bomb? ... that the first lady of the Ivory Coast created an animated kids show in 1989? ... that Olympic fencer Victor Alvares de Oliveira was told at a young age by doctors that he had little chance to compete in the sport due to his severe asthma? ... that the site of the headquarters of the German colonization of Texas was converted into a museum? ... that artifacts of Papua New Guinean art were called "living spirits with fixed abodes"?

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